[Development] Proposal: more Jira states to track stages of the work on an issue

[Vitaly Fanaskov]

Sounds like a good idea.

It also would be nice to integrate this change with gerrit somehow. For 
example, if you push non-WIP changes and add reviewers, an associated 
task should be moved to "In Review" state automatically.

On 2/17/20 10:13 AM, Edward Welbourne wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We currently have an "In Progress" state.  In practice when I work on an
> issue, I initially do the work, then put that up for review; the review
> phase takes up fragments of my time for a while, unlike the main work
> phase, which is closer to full-time.  I have more control over (and a
> better ability to estimate) how long the actual work takes, while review
> (and subsequent integration) depends on factors outside my control, that
> are harder to estimate.
>
> (Sometimes, under the present branching model, I also have to put work
> on hold until other work merges up for me to rebase it onto.  However,
> that complication shall go away soon, so I'll ignore it.)
>
> When my team is planning sprints, our scrum master wants to know what
> tasks I'll be working on, and what counts as "Done" for each of them.
> Having a separate state for "In Review", distinct from "In Progress",
> would let us distinguish the relatively plannable, and intense, part of
> the work from the part that (often happens in a later sprint, and)
> takes up a smaller proportion of my time but may take longer.
>
> So I'd like to modify our Jira work-flows to include a distinct "In
> Review" state for when I've completed the main work and am either
> waiting for review or responding to reviewers' comments.  Of course, if
> those comments prompt me to go back and start over, I'll also want to be
> able to go back to the "In Progress" state from it.
>
> Does anyone have any objection to this, or suggestions for a better way
> to handle the relevant work-flow transition ?  If not, I'm hoping Alex
> can work out how to implement what I want ...
>
> 	Eddy.
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Best Regards,

Fanaskov Vitaly
Senior Software Engineer

The Qt Company